diff --git a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
index 7a1a5aa1d645e639cd85cebb521ccb857cb47508..d843b606d8524180c30430941f0760343496a05f 100644
--- a/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/manual/source/installation-and-configuration.rst
@@ -23,8 +23,16 @@ In order to run Dynare, you need one of the following:
 The following optional extensions are also useful to benefit from
 extra features, but are in no way required:
 
-* If under MATLAB: the Optimization Toolbox, the Statistics Toolbox,
-  the Control System Toolbox;
+* If under MATLAB: the 
+  * Optimization Toolbox (providing various optimizers 
+    like ``fminsearch``, ``fmincon``, or ``fminunc``, used in e.g. ``mode_compute``,
+    ``opt_algo`` or ``ALGO``), 
+  * Statistics Toolbox (for faster and sometimes more robust implementations of 
+    statistical distributions), 
+  * Global Optimization Toolbox (for ``particleswarm`` and ``simulannealbnd``, used in 
+    e.g. ``mode_compute``, ``opt_algo`` or ``ALGO``)
+  * Control System Toolbox (for the Lyapunov solver ``dlyapchol`` triggered with ``options_.lyapunov_srs``)
+  * Parallel Computing Toolbox (to speed up the ``dime`` sampler)
 
 * If under Octave, the following `Octave-Forge`_ packages: ``optim``, ``io``,
   ``control``.
diff --git a/matlab/optimization/dynare_minimize_objective.m b/matlab/optimization/dynare_minimize_objective.m
index 5466d2330da9871d2e53b743265162a5a78d32f1..990f9b146e08310cd2dc72077bb60a7800bcd32b 100644
--- a/matlab/optimization/dynare_minimize_objective.m
+++ b/matlab/optimization/dynare_minimize_objective.m
@@ -631,9 +631,9 @@ switch minimizer_algorithm
     end
   case 102
     if isoctave
-        error('Optimization algorithm 2 is not available under Octave')
+        error('Optimization algorithm 102 is not available under Octave')
     elseif ~user_has_matlab_license('GADS_Toolbox')
-        error('Optimization algorithm 2 requires the Global Optimization Toolbox')
+        error('Optimization algorithm 102 requires the Global Optimization Toolbox')
     end
     % Set default optimization options for simulannealbnd.
     if ~isoctave